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NIRVANA, MOKSHA OR LIBERATION
parikkhinabhava sanyojano sammad anna vimutto sopi pathavim pathavito abhijanati.......pathavim meti na mannati......upam......tejam ....... ne na inannati ; tam kissa hetu:......kha ya mohassa vitamohatta. Tathagatopi bhikkhave araham samma sambuddho pathvim pathavito abhijanati......pathavim me ti na mannati......tam kissa hetu : nandi dukkhassa mulam ti iti tiditoa bhava jati bhutassa jara-marananti, tasmadih bhikkhave Tathagato sabbaso tanhanain kha ya niraga nirodha chaga patinissagga anuttaram samnını sambodhim abhisa mhuldhoti vadamiti-idamavocha Bhagawa, attamanate bhikkhu Bhagavato bhasitam abhinundunti.
“O Monks! The monk who is worshipful, who has destroyed åsavas, is fully chaste, has done what had to be done, has thrown away the burden, has attained truth, has destroyed the bondage of birth, has become rightly learned, is non-attached, knows earth to be earth, and does not maintain that earth to be his own. In the same way, he knows water as water, fire as fire, he does not maintain that water is his and fire is his. Because he has become delusionless, on destruction of delusion. In the same way, Tathagata (Gotam Buddha) is also worshipful, has right knowledge, he also knows earth as earth ; he does not maintain earth to be his own. He knows that Thirst is the root-cause of misery. Becoming is cause of birth. The living being suffers old age and death."
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